The Pandemic in China

I left China less than a month ago and I'm still readjusting to this bizarre land of the face maskless where all of the drivers stop for you and no one honks. It's really become this absolutely bizarre sort of state of affairs wherever it feels like everyone has Stockholm syndrome. Every three days you have to get a nucleic acid test everyone is in masks and you are barked out if you take it down a little bit. For first time that I felt actual popular disease and discontent with government policy and among the elites disease about the coronation of Xi Jinping for his third term so China's in a very funny place right now a very odd place like nothing I'd seen